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I do not build stove pipes, with that said dose the a/c chosen need to have entered front line service?
Thinking of building a Me 264
Trevor, the aircraft doesn't have to have been in front line service. Any aircraft with a delta wing is fine. Unfortunatly I'd have to say no to the Me 264 though.
As defined by Wikipedia : " The delta wing is a wing planform in the form of a triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the Greek uppercase letter delta (Δ)."
Here is a large, but not complete list of acceptable delta winged aircraft:
Avro 707 (1949) - experimental
Avro Vulcan - strategic (nuclear) bomber
Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
Boeing X-32
Boulton Paul P.111 (1949) - research
Buran Space Shuttle
Chengdu J-7
Chengdu J-9
Chengdu J-10
Concorde
Convair B-58 Hustler
Convair F-102 Delta Dagger
Convair F-106 Delta Dart
Convair F2Y Sea Dart (unique seaplane fighter)
Convair XF-92
Convair XFY (one of the few propeller-driven delta wing aircraft)
Dassault Mirage III
Dassault Mirage IV
Dassault Mirage 2000
Dassault Rafale
Dyke Delta (another propeller-driven double delta wing aircraft)
Eurofighter Typhoon
Fairey Delta 1 (1951) - transonic delta research
Fairey Delta 2 (1954) - research, 1st aircraft to break 1,000 mph, rebuilt as BAC 211 for high speed delta research for Concorde
Gloster Javelin
HAL Tejas
Handley Page HP.115 - low speed delta research for Concorde
JF-17 Thunder
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk (another "tailed" delta wing aircraft)
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 'Fishbed' (a "tailed" delta wing)
Myasishchev M-50
North American XB-70 Valkyrie
Saab 35 Draken
Saab 37 Viggen
Saab JAS 39 Gripen
Shenyang J-8
Space Shuttle Orbiter
Sukhoi Su-9 'Fishpot'
Sukhoi Su-11 'Fishpot'
Sukhoi Su-15 'Flagon' (early models)
Sukhoi T-4 / 100 Sotka
Tupolev Tu-144
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